04 October 2016: Mary Fahl & Marillion

Production

As of September 2006 Fahl completed the recording of Mary Fahl: From the Dark Side of the Moon, produced by Mark Doyle and David Werner and mixed by Bob Clearmountain. Doyle also provided nearly all of the instrumentation.[1] The album remained unreleased for several years,[2] and Fahl released it independently on May 10, 2011.[3]

Reception

Publication Nippertown referred to the album as "mindblowing,"[3] while The Morton Report called it "brilliant" and "a worthy re-interpretation not to be missed."[4]

Fuck Everyone and Run (F E A R) is Marillion's 18th studio album, released on 23 September 2016.[4]

Promotion

As with many of their recent albums, Marillion used crowdfunding to finance this album, this time using PledgeMusic. The campaign offered various options of pre-ordering the album—called only by the code name M18
at that time—including CD, download only, and a limited Ultimate
Edition box, containing, among others, a Blu-ray Disc containing a
making-of-the-album film.[5][6]
Originally the album was slated to be released on 1 May 2016, but was
later postponed to 9 September, and again to 23 September.
On 8 April, Marillion revealed the album's cover art and announced the title of the album as Fuck Everyone and Run (F E A R).[7] Singer Steve Hogarth commented on the title, saying,

”This title is adopted not in anger or with any intention to shock.
It is adopted and sung (in the song "New Kings”) tenderly, in sadness
and resignation inspired by an England, and a world, which increasingly
functions on an “Every man for himself” philosophy. I won’t bore you
with examples, they’re all over the newspapers every day. There’s a
sense of foreboding that permeates much of this record. I have a feeling
that we’re approaching some kind of sea-change in the world – an
irreversible political, financial, humanitarian and environmental storm.
I hope that I’m wrong. I hope that my FEAR of what “seems” to be
approaching is just that, and not FEAR of what “is” actually about to
happen.”[8]

On 7 July, customers of the PledgeMusic campaign received access to download the song suite The New Kings, and an edited version of the song was made available to the public on Marillion's YouTube channel.[9]
On 19 September, the band informed customers that had pre-ordered the
Ultimate Edition that a breakdown of a piece of machinery at the
manufacturing plant caused a delay of several weeks in the delivery of
the box set. As compensation, these customers received an additional CD,
and early access to the download of the album on the same day.[10]

Track listing

Fuck Everyone and Run (F E A R) was released as a standard CD edition and also as a 33⅓ rpm double vinyl LP with a slightly different track order.
All songs written by Marillion.